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...three home runs and 11 RBI over the weekend—provided the Crimson with enough firepower to stay competitive in most of its games, Harvard struggled to string runs together at crucial times.“We’re not the kind of team that can sit back and wait for those home runs to happen,” Vance said. “We need to focus on getting our bunts down and moving runners. We hit a couple out this weekend, but that’s not going win us ball games.”LAFAYETTE...
...paper still relishes its role as a combatant. There is no pretext of objectivity. Novaya Gazeta may be pro-Western, but the kind of journalism the paper churns out would hardly sit well at a newspaper in, say, the U.S., where reporters are expected to see both sides. Here reporters are expected not so much to unearth news as to find information that corroborates what everyone in the newsroom already believes: the Kremlin is bad; the security apparatus is bad; the intelligentsia is good; the Westernizers and liberals are right...
...character is focal to the playbut very quiet, forcing Renaud to performwhat she calls “an exercise in beingstill onstage.” As an actor, who generallyhas the impulse to move and be activeonstage, it has been a way for Renaud tolearn how to simply sit and exist. Meanwhile,the entrance of Pastel’s characterAnna into scenes often breaks the rhythmof the married couple and initiates timeshifts. For her, playing Anna has beenabout making that clear without beingoverly explicit.The three believe that the play is alreadya success. Though they would likean audience, they are more...
...atthe same time to lay the moments with asense of reality,” he said.Also critical to Cooper’s performancewere the lengthy discussions he and thedirector had before filming began. “Thiswas one of those rare opportunities whereIra and I had a chance to sit down and goline-by-line,” he said. “It’s just been instilledin me to do my homework...I don’tcare if it’s a studio or low-budget, timebecomes money. I don’t want to waste...
...have not.RR: Are you now looking forward to serving one day?DC: No, I think I would try to get out of it when I’m on the stand.RR: How would you do that?DC: I’d do the George Carlin trick, which is you sit on the stand and you say“Judge, I would make a great juror because I can spot a guilty man [clap] just likethat.” Or you can just act crazy.RR: What is your angriest scene in the play?DC: Well, fi rst of all, there?...